Mataiótēs — G3153

Definition

feminine noun

inutility; figuratively, transientness; morally, depravity

1. what is devoid of truth and appropriateness
2. perverseness, depravation
3. frailty, want of vigor

Usually translated as

vanity

Origin

from G3152

• mátaios (G3152)

Occurrences

Mataiótēs occurs 3 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Romans (1), Ephesians (1), 2 Peter (1)

• Romans 8:20 — For the creature was made subject to vanity (ματαιότητι), not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
• Ephesians 4:17 — This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (ματαιότητι) of their mind,
• 2 Peter 2:18 — For when they speak great swelling words of vanity (ματαιότητος), they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.